Posts Tagged kirby

Jack Kirby’s pencil drawings have a warmth, character and depth that even his greatest inkers couldn’t capture. I’ve always been curious what Kirby’s art would look like if the inking process was skipped, and his pencil art was colored directly.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

This weekend a new series, Transformers (vs?) G.I. Joe was announced by me and John Barber. Here are the steps that led to the final image that was used for the announcement. I’d pitched a number of possible compositions with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

I always wondered what would’ve happened if Kirby’s Fourth World collided with Batman’s Gotham rather than Superman’s Metropolis. I’m selling the Batman sketch I made to insert into the scene at Etsy. You can buy it by clicking on this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Okay, so Kirby drew the Kree Supreme Intelligence once and never again. Here’s what it looked like: When other artists picked up what Kirby created they interpreted this as a giant floating disembodied alien head: But looking at Kirby’s original[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Here’s an in-progess snapshot of a crazy Savage Dragon story I’m working on. It’s a four-pager, these are page one and the double-page spread. Panel-for-panel, this might by the most narratively compressed story I’ve ever done. Bookmark It Hide Sites

I thought I’d share some of the art I worked on back in December for Captain America: Hail Hydra #2. This is a drawing I did as a warm-up. Here’s page one: I had fun coming up with a Kirby in Babylon design for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Just got the new Complete Thundarr the Barbarian DVD set. What it lacks in extras it makes up for in content. This is Steve Gerber, Jack Kirby, and Alex Toth’s saturday morning masterpiece. It was my first exposure to Kirby[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…